If you would like to view satellite images of the current locations of the former Taiwan POW Camps and other related sites, copy the co-ordinates listed below in the “Google Earth Co-ordinates” column for the camp or site required into the “search” box at the top left hand corner of Google Earth.
POW Sites |
Google Earth Co-ordinates |
Date Opened |
Date Closed |
| Heito Camp |
22° 39' 26.3"N 120° 32' 54.3"E
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08/12/1942 |
03/15/1945 |
POWs slaved to clear rocks and stones from river bed to plant sugar cane, also worked in sugar factory – camp bombed by USN February 1945.
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| Karenko Camp |
24° 01' 26.8"N 121° 36' 23.9"E |
08/17/1942 |
06/25/1943 |
Camp for senior officers and aides – mostly engaged in farming.
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| Takao Camp |
22° 35' 35.8"N 120° 18' 05.2"E
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09/07/1942 |
02/15/1945 |
Transit camp near Takao Harbor, men did stevedoring work.
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| Taichu Camp |
24° 01' 06.8"N 120° 40' 53.6"E
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09/27/1942 |
07/01/1944 |
POWs slaved here excavating a flood diversion channel in the nearby river. Camp flooded in June 1944, POWs moved to Heito and other camps.
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| Taihoku Camp #6 |
25° 05' 04.0"N 121° 32' 35.2"E
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11/14/1942 |
09/06/1945 |
POWs slaved building a memorial park and man-made lake for Japs. They were also engaged in farming, and some worked in the railway repair shops.
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| Kinkaseki Camp |
25° 06' 38.6"N 121° 51' 30.4"E
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11/14/1942 |
05/16/1945 |
POWs slaved in the nearby copper mine – moved to Kukutsu 05/45.
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| Tamazato Camp |
23° 20' 27.6"N 121° 18' 41.2"E
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04/02/1943 |
06/24/1943 |
Temporary camp for senior officers and aides to prepare for Red Cross visit.
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| Shirakawa Camp |
23° 23' 51.0"N 120° 26' 29.5"E
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06/06/1943 |
08/26/1945 |
Senior officers’ camp after Karenko closed – mostly engaged in farming. Most officers moved to Manchuria in October 1944. After that it became more or less a hospital camp until the end of the war.
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| Taihoku Camp # 5 - Mosak |
24° 59' 20.5"N 121° 33' 27.6"E
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06/24/1943 |
12/06/1944 |
Camp for 32 most senior officers and governors and aides – little work.
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| Inrin Camp |
23° 56' 53.5"N 120° 36' 05.7"E
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07/01/1944 |
03/05/1945 |
Initially POWs came from Taichu Camp after it was flooded – little work.
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| Inrin Temporary Camp |
23° 56' 39.5"N 120° 36' 08.1"E
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11/09/1944 |
01/15/1945 |
Temporary rest camp for men from hellship Hokusen Maru – little work.
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| Toroku Camp |
23° 40' 27.0"N 120° 32' 16.0"E
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11/09/1944 |
04/11/1945 |
Temporary rest camp for men from hellship Hokusen Maru and later housed other POWs from Taichu and Inrin Camps – little work, but some men worked at the nearby sugar mill.
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| Kukutsu Camp |
24° 54' 43.3"N 121° 30' 23.4"E
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05/16/1945 |
08/24/1945 |
Basically an extermination camp for the remaining Kinkaseki POWs – POWs were starved and beaten.
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| Oka Camp |
25° 08' 13.5"N 121° 35' 15.3"E
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06/12/1945 |
08/21/1945 |
Basically an extermination camp prepared to kill all POWs in Taihoku 6.
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| Churon Camp |
25° 03' 52.4"N 121° 33' 44.8"E
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08/25/1945 |
09/06/1945 |
Temporary holding camp for POWs from Kinkaseki/Kukutsu awaiting evacuation by allied forces.
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| Taihoku Prison |
25° 01' 56.3"N 121° 31' 31.5"E
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It was here that all of the American Air Force and Navy fighter pilots and bomber aircrews who were shot down or crashed over Taiwan were imprisoned, interrogated and in some cases, executed.
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